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  • Fatigue takes its toll on dedicated extreme gamer, Xu Zhipeng (left), who plays online games day and night at Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  he caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall and 157 pounds.  He lives at his computer station, day and night, sleeping there when he's tired and showering once a week at a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and three nights. When he tires of gaming at the café he reads fantasy books. ?It's nice to rest your eyes on a book,? he says, even though he's reading it online. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months at a time and continuously plays games. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users; a number close to the entire population of the United States. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba girls play a game outside their home in Okapembambu village in northwestern Namibia.
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  • Xu Zhipeng, a freelance computer graphics artist and Internet gamer, with his typical day's worth of food in his rented chair at the Ming Wang Internet Café in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches and 157 pounds.  He lives at his computer station, day and night, sleeping there when he's tired and showering once a week at a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. When he tires of gaming at the café he reads fantasy books. ?It's nice to rest your eyes on a book,? he says, even though he's reading it online. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States.
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months at a time and continuously plays games. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States.
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  • Ice hockey game between teams from Lugano and Zurich in Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab. Jon Berger and Stolrov pass the time playing a game of chess (American vs. Soviet]. MODEL RELEASED (1987]
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  • Virtual reality. Cyberspace racquetball game: real strokes made by Christopher Allis, the player are returned by the Cyberspace computer through the virtual, computer- generated environment displayed on the monitor. Admission to this virtual squash court is provided by 3-D video goggles, a magnetic sensor & optical fiber sensors woven into a black rubber glove. The headset sensor transmits data to the computer on the player's position in space, whilst the data glove connects real hand movements to the virtual racquet court. Photo taken at AutoDesk Inc., Sausalito, California. Model Released (1990)
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  • Ice hockey game between teams from Lugano and Zurich in Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Ice hockey game between teams from Lugano and Zurich in Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab. Workers pass the time playing a game of chess (American, Jon Berger vs. Soviet, Stolyrov]. MODEL RELEASED (1987]
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  • Diamond polishers play a game of dominoes during a break at NamCot Diamonds, a diamond cutting and polishing company in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
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  • Men engage in a game of tug-of-war in the Kibera slum, Nairobi Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • In the East Bay suburb of Walnut Creek, near San Francisco, Will Wright and family collectively in their garage preparing their creation for "Robot Wars"(daughter Cassidy 11, nephew Patrick 14, and Will). Later that week, in a battle pit ringed by six-foot sheets of bulletproof glass and a sellout crowd, radio-controlled gladiators battle their robots to the mechanical death. Will Wright developed the Sims software games.
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  • Namibians of various tribes, including traditionally dressed Himba women (left), mingle at Castle Bar Number 2 in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.
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  • Oakland A's baseball team vs. the New York Yankees, sell-out crowd, Oakland, California. 1981. USA.
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Casino near Regis, NY near the Canadian border
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  • Casino near Regis, NY near the Canadian border
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  • York Cliffs house, Cape Neddick, Maine
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Two local men carry fish strung on poles in downtown Agats, the main town of the huge Asmat swamp. The town has boardwalks built on high poles because the tides of the Arafura sea are very big. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Virtual reality: Warren Robinett wears a prototype (1st generation) headset. Virtual environments are generated by computer systems to allow users to interact with in similar ways as they might with a real environment. The computer environments are displayed to their users using sophisticated graphics projected through small video monitors mounted on the headset. In addition, some headsets have a sensor which instructs the computer of the wearer's spatial aspect, that is, in 3-D. This particular model features displays with half-silvered mirrors that allow the user to see the computer image & look ahead. Model Released (1990)
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  • Virtual reality: Rich Holloway wears prototype headset which employs half-silvered mirrors to enable the user to view a projected image of a virtual environment (and thus exist in virtual reality) and also see in front of his nose. A virtual environment is one created by a computer. A person entering such an environment does so with the aid of such a headset, which displays virtual imagery. Tactile interaction with the environment may be made using a data glove, a Spandex garment wired with sensors, which relays movement of the hand & fingers to the virtual environment. Model Released (1990)
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke sits in his wheelchair (he has post-polio syndrome) at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, upon a checkerboard-patterned area facing the sea. Clarke wrote 3001 while living in this hotel. He wrote 2001 while living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. When asked about Hal and Hal's legacy (artificial intelligence), Clarke said that Hal was possible but asked if that was a good idea. He said that he believed intelligent machines will come, but then there is the question of consciousness. "I think, therefore I am, I think," he said. The photograph Illustrates this quote. Published in Germany's Stern Magazine, 12 December 2001, pages 74-75 and table of contents. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • "The Chess Player", a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • Girls and two men play volleyball in the 12 de Octubre barrio in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • Girls and two men play volleyball in the 12 de Octubre barrio in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • Sam Tucker, lobsterman and fish buyer at Portland Maine Fish Exchange with a deer he shot near his house on Great Diamond Island, Portland, Maine.  (Samuel Tucker is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED
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  • Uahoo Uahoo, a warden at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, stands in the back of his truck with his typical day's worth of food and observes a herd of springbok. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • MODEL RELEASED. Entertainer android robot. View of Sarcos, an android (human-like) entertainment robot, playing seven-card-stud poker with a group of robot engineers. Sarcos was developed at SARCOS Research Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • In a photo-illustration, SARCOS, an animatronic robot built by the SARCOS Research Corp., a Salt Lake City, UT, robotics company, appears to peer at the seven-card-stud hand of Scott Reynolds (at right), one of the engineers responsible for creating him (with technicians Doren Prue, center, and Charles Ledger). From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 218-219.
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  • After the battle at San Francisco's Robot Wars, robot owners quickly repair what they can in the adjacent pit area . Full of machines being groomed for combat and surgically rescued after it, the pit is a sort of electronic fighter's dressing room and hospital emergency room. Video monitors above the pit give contestants a view of the action. At Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 204 top.
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  • Painted pink to give competitors a false sense of its harmlessness, Mouser Catbot 2000 has two deadly sawblades in its nose and tail and a hidden flipper on its back for overturning enemy robots. Built by Californians Fon Davis and April Mousley (left to right), the machine deftly trounced Vlad the Impaler, a larger machine with a hydraulic spike that shot from its snout  at Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 205.
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  • The most sophisticated machines don't necessarily triumph in the violent gladiatorial battles at San Francisco's Robot Wars, as shown when Tazbot (with turret), a simple, remote-controlled vehicle, forces a much more sophisticated, autonomously moving opponent to self-destruct. San Francisco, CA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 204 bottom.
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  • Reviewing the results of her work, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Manuela Veloso (kneeling) watches the university soccer-robot team chase after the ball on a field on the floor of her lab. Every year, the Carnegie Mellon squad plays against other soccer-robot teams from around the world in an international competition known as RoboCup. Veloso's team, CMUnited, is highly regarded. Flanked by research engineer Sorin Achim, postdoctoral fellow Peter Stone, and graduate research assistant Michael Bowling (right to left), Veloso is running through the current year's strategy a month before the world championships in Stockholm. CMU's AIBO team members are Scott Lenser, Elly Winner, and James Bruce. Pittsburgh, PA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 214.
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  • Readying for the RoboCup championship in Sweden, Jörg Wilberg (rear left) and his research team at the German National Research Center (GMD) outside Bonn, Germany review the prospects of their five-machine robot-soccer squad. The GMD team plays in the medium-sized division, which uses a real soccer ball on a field about a third as big as a basketball court. Each robot monitors the position of the ball with a video camera; special software lets the machine track its round shape. Kneeling on the floor, researcher Peter Schöll tests the software by observing the image of the ball in the monitor. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 215
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  • Teens at a party play cards. Santiago, Chile.
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  • Virtual reality videogame: Evan Menzel wears a Nintendo Power Glove to interact with the fictional/virtual Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo characters) in the living room of his home in Napa, California. Model Released (1990)
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  • Virtual reality videogame: Jack Menzel wears a Nintendo Power Glove to interact with the fictional (or virtual) Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo characters) in the living room of his home in Napa, California. Model Released (1990)
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  • Virtual reality videogame: Jack Menzel wears a Nintendo Power Glove to interact with the fictional (or virtual) Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo characters) in the living room of his home in Napa, California. Model Released (1990)
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  • Virtual reality videogame: Evan & Jack Menzel appear to do battle over who is to wear the Nintendo Power Glove to interact with the fictional (or virtual) Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo characters) in the living room of their home in Napa, California. Model Released (1990)
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  • Myron Kruger and his assistant, Katrin Hinrichsen, 'shooting' at each other with computer-generated sparks. Kruger is a pioneer of artificial reality, a method allowing people to interface directly with computers. In Kruger's method, called VideoPlace, the participants stand in front of a backlit screen. A video camera forms an image of their silhouette; the computer is programmed to respond to particular actions in a particular way. Here the computer sees the operators pointing, and interprets this as fire a spark in this direction. The computer-generated image appears in the background here on a large video screen. Model Released (1990)
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  • Sam Tucker, lobsterman and fish buyer at Portland Maine Fish Exchange with a deer he shot near his house on Great Diamond Island, Portland, Maine. (Samuel Tucker is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Diamond polisher Mestilde's Shigwedha's netball team (outside the court on left) waits their turn to play in a city tournament in Windhoek, Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The team is sponsored by Mesti's employer, NamCot Diamonds, which is part of the Steinmetz Group.
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Young men play cricket and soccer on the roof of a building next to the Ananta Clothing Factory on Elephant Road.
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  • Ringed by six-foot sheets of bulletproof glass and a sellout crowd, radio-controlled gladiators battle to the mechanical death. At Robot Wars, a two-day-long competition in San Francisco, the crowd roars to the near-constant shriek of metal, the crash of flying parts, and the thunderous beat of techno music. After a series of one-on-one matches, losers and winners alike duke it out in a final death-match called a Melee. California, USA
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  • Ringed by six-foot sheets of bullet-proof glass and a sellout crowd, radio-controlled gladiators battle to the mechanical death. At Robot Wars, a two-day-long competition in San Francisco, CA the crowd roars to the near-constant shriek of metal, the crash of flying parts, and the thunderous beat of techno music. After a series of one-on-one matches, losers and winners alike duke it out in a final death-match called a Melee. In this Melee, the 13-foot Snake curls to use its drill-bit tail on its hapless victim, a tracked vehicle; meanwhile, the simple yet primitively powerful Frenzy hammers the rolling, wedge-shaped Tazbot. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 202-203.
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka..Sir Arthur C. Clarke sits in his wheelchair (he has post-polio syndrome) upon a checkerboard-patterned area outside the grand seaside Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Clarke wrote 3001, the last book of his acclaimed science fiction series while living in this hotel. (He wrote 2001 while living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City). Protecting Clarke from the fierce noon sun, is the hotel doorman, Kattarapatte Chadthu Kuttan, 70, who has worked at the Galle Face Hotel for 58 years, since age 12. (2001) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Fearsome sawblades spinning, Pretty Hate Machine menaces the competition at Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. Organized by Marc Thorpe, a former Industrial Light and Magic model builder, the cybernetic slugfest spawned a six-week BBC-TV series and many similar events. Pretty Hate Machine is a middleweight-class machine; two wheelchair motors power a Rube Goldberg assembly of rods, rubber belts and saw blades. A real crowd-pleaser, Pretty Hate Machine was one of the few walking robots in a competition dominated by wheeled or tracked machines. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 200-201.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Jay Eisenlohr, VP of marketing for Rendition Software of Mountain View, maker of 3-D graphic chips for games. Eisenlohr in his living room playing an on-line racing game while his wife and daughter watch TV (classic old US TV shows on Nickelodeon). Model Released. (1999).
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  • Pachinko parlors in Japan are packed and popular with the older set. Osaka, Japan. (The girl holds a sign that says: "right now all of the machines have 'no panku'," which means they have turned off the part of the machine that randomly stops you from getting balls when you've started getting them. (The point of the game is to collect more and more balls, but sometimes when you get a ball somewhere, that makes them start streaming out, there is a function of the machine which will stop them after some random amount, so you usually get fewer; they've turned that function off). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • War game combatant at Sat Cong village paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. He surrenders after being shot in the face with a blue paintball. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A young woman war games paintball combatant at Sad Sack's Paintball Park, near Los Angeles, California, USA. Her T-shirt reads: "Join the Marines. Travel to exotic distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people. And kill them." MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A camouflaged family of paintball combatants at Sat Cong Village war games/paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. The father of the three girls holds his gun to his oldest daughter's head.
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  • Sat Cong Village war games paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA.
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  • Sat Cong Village war games paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. A player who was shot surrenders.
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  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
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  • Paint splattered pig (used for target practice) at the "Quest" Paint Gun Combat Park.  Malibu, California, USA.
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  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
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  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
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  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
    USA_GoFish_060809_052_rwx.jpg
  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
    USA_GoFish_060809_042_rwx.jpg
  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
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  • Napa Valley, CA at Thanksgiving time 2010 with Menzel and D'Aluisio family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Combatant playing war peers out a window with his paintball gun ready to fire at the Sat Cong Village paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Combatants playing war at "Quest" paintball combat park, Malibu, California, USA.
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  • Sahara casino.  Attendees of the Soldier of Fortune Convention play slot machines, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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  • On the desert shooting range during a live fire weapons firing demonstration of Kokalis machine guns at Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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  • On the desert shooting range, a young woman competes in the 3-gun match.  Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures in the Mojave Desert, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A medic responds to mayhem after a simulated explosion seemingly destroys an Army Humvee inside the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Hundreds of military and civilian actors and scores of directors participate in elaborate training exercises for soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Nolan Bushnell, Atari founder at home in Woodside, California, living room. Model Released (1999).
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  • A group of children on the street play checkers with beer bottle caps on a homemade checkerboard in Soweto, South Africa. Soweto is the nickname of Southwest Township, a sprawling lawless community outside Johannesburg. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Elderly Japanese and their community caretakers play beach volleyball in an indoor pool at a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa. Patrons can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous, vibrant and lively places. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son..
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  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
    USA_GoFish_060809_016_rwx.jpg
  • Sean Knight plays "Go Fish" and drinks saki with partners and fellow chefs Cindy Pawlcyn and Ken Tominaga at Cindy's St. Helena home in the Napa Valley, CA. They are about to open a new restaurant in St. Helena, called Go Fish. Also playing is Ken's 9 year old son.
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. Napa, California, USA. Napa Valley.
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  • Tom Beck with scar from shooting accident (self inflicted gun shot wound). Attending the Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Tom Beck aims a machine gun from his jeep. Attending the Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Boys playing baseball in front of their thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Medina Jabal Iraqi town at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    USA_080915_076_xw.jpg
  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Indian owned San Felipe Casino. Near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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  • On the desert shooting range before a live fire weapons demonstration at the Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini figure was later shot and burned.
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  • Pool hall with some men sleeping on the tables. Guilin, China.
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  • A medic responds to mayhem after a simulated explosion seemingly destroys an Army Humvee inside the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures  at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Hundreds of military and civilian actors and scores of directors participate in elaborate training exercises for soldiers deploying to Iraq. Some actors are actually amputees, adding to the realism of the scene, which is embellished with fake blood and dismembered limbs.
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  • Waglong Restaurant in Pudong, Shanghai, China, where freelance computer graphics artist and internet gamer Xu Zhipeng occasionally orders his meals. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Twice a day Xu Zhipeng tears himself away from an online game for less than a minute to order a meal. The food is delivered to his computer station 10 minutes later, where he eats it without interrupting his game.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Icarian corporation software; 5:18 PM: Doug Merritt and Rani Hublou, the husband and wife team that leads Icarian, Inc. and the Icarian workforce in the company's Sunnyvale, California office. Merritt says that Icarian is managed so as to be a fun place to work. This is exemplified by the company-wide Friday afternoon in-line-skate hockey competitions that are held in the parking lot. Usually they drink beer from the company keg in the company lunchroom after the game but since this was the beginning of the Fourth of July weekend, everyone went home after the game at 6 PM. (1999).
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  • On a slow Saturday in Ban Muang Wa village, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand, the hottest action in the village is in the cool shade under the Khuenkaew's house. Three weeks ago, Boontham and Bourphet gave their son Visith, 9, a hand-held video game, and the household has been filled with its beeps and buzzes ever since. Here his best friend plays with the game as Visith's 14-year-old sister Jeeraporn, left, and her friends watch. Published in Material World page 82. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • Virtual reality & the home computer. Home-based computer scientist, John Schultz, plays a 3-D video game in 3-D stereo sound featuring space-planes dog-fighting, which he wrote for his home computer. Entitled The Event Horizon Simulator the game runs on an Atari 2000 computer, using conventional stereo headphones and a basic LCD headset. Model Released (1990)
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  • Waglong Restaurant in Pudong, Shanghai, China, where freelance computer graphics artist and internet gamer Xu Zhipeng occasionally orders his meals. Twice a day Xu Zhipeng tears himself away from an online game for less than a minute to order a meal. The food is delivered to his computer station 10 minutes later, where he eats it without interrupting his game. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months and continuously plays games. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users; a number close to the entire population of the United States. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets films game ranger Uahoo Uahoo at Etosha National Park in north-western Namibia. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • California Conservation Corps. Clearing a stream of redwood logs for the California Department of Fish & Game so that salmon can use the stream to spawn. Near Eureka, Northern California.
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  • at Notre Dame, Indiana home football game
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke's daily dose of afternoon table tennis at the Otter Club. He is playing against one of his valets Lenin, and takes his game very seriously. Published in Stern Magazine, 28 December 2000, page 77. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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